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Now that wiringpi is deprecated (and requires a download from the author's site to work on the Pi4) the future of the gpio readall command is unknown.
I wrote a replacement (which uses pigpiod) - which has the advantage of displaying the ACTUAL programmed GPIO function if changed and can be used remotely (like other pigpiod programs). This is simplified,and ...
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The correct answer was from Janka, I'm adding these info for reference to other people that will try to do the same thing with no success.
Following the Janka's directions I was able to get the job done.
Well, my fault was pretty silly and was about the PIN's numbers: I was using the connector number but the correct value is the BCM pin.
I found this tool:...
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UART is an odd choice for connecting two computers. It's definitely possible to use it with a bit of programming, but don't expect there to be many pre-existing options in terms of software.
If you use any kind of network as a connections, there are many tools which allow you to forward keystrokes over the network, starting with USBIP (which forwards data ...
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What you suggest will work just fine.
Connect one wire to a Pi ground. Strip the other end and twist as many other wires around that as needed. Perhaps wrap some insulating tape around the bare ends afterwards.
You can do exactly the same if you need more 5V or 3V3 wires.
If you buy a breadboard you will see it dedicates long strips for ground and ...
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You can use any spare GPIO as a chip select as far as the Linux kernel SPI driver on the Pi is concerned.
Whether a HAT or other device can use that GPIO as a chip select depends on several things.
Is the GPIO used by the HAT or other device hard wired by the HAT or other device
Have you got access to the HAT or other device software to make the needed ...
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It seems you are missing the critical part of converting RS232 signal (which is not 3.3 V) to RPI GPIO compatible 3.3V Signal as described in this example:
https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/20/raspberry-pi-serial-port-usage
http://raspberrypi.tomasgreno.cz/uart-to-rs-232.html
On GPIO header of RPi you can find a so called UART pins. In fact, it ...
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To Answer the additional question you asked in Comments:-
RPi.GPIO has a cleanup command which can be used at the end of the program to restore startup state and should resolve the problem of releasing GPIO pins.
I don't actually use RPi.GPIO; gpiozero does this automatically.
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I realize this is an old thread but it's still high on the Google ratings so an update. I've just built a NAS using a Raspberry Pi 4+ 4GB and four external 1-TB backup drives (Seagate Basic Portable STX1000400). The Pi's power over USB is insufficient to run four spindles, so it requires a powered USB hub, but this also has the advantage of spinning all ...
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For GPIO 2/3 (pins 3/5) to operate as the I2C bus they must be in a GPIO mode called ALT0.
They are set to this mode when the Linux I2C/SMBus driver is loaded.
The RPi.GPIO module is changing the mode of GPIO 2/3 to INPUT. This stops the proper operation of the I2C bus.
You need to again set the mode to ALT0 for GPIO 2/3 for the bus to operate again.
As ...
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The mode of each pin is either in, out or any of the other functions (I2C in this case). Pins 3 and 5 are in ALT0 mode by default after reboot if the I2C driver is active. Type gpio readall on the command line to see which pins are in which mode.
To do the same as
gpio mode 8 alt0
gpio mode 9 alt0
in code, you need to do something like
GPIO.setup(3, ...
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Your schematic is not a good idea: It will put 6V on your GPIO pin, and fry your RPi. You could save yourself some money by avoiding the obvious mistakes :)
The best solution for driving a MOSFET from your 3.3V GPIO is a Darlington Pair. Here's why I say this.
If you want to drive an n-channel MOSFET as you've shown in your schematic, simply swap the npn ...
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I also faced the same problem while I was working on it for the first time. But after some debugging, I concluded that after cleanup, the pins go to the default state which is high for few pins and low for some. Trying by not to clean the state of the pins might solve your problem.
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SMBus's write_byte_data is the function I needed. I had to specify which register I was using per analog input.
The I/O error I had was the result of only having a single pcf8591 located at 0x48.
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You have to drive this MOSFET with another transistor(a BJT perhaps). Or you could replace the MOSFET with a BJT. The are good for driving transistors.
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Firstly you are applying 6V to the GPIO and are likely to damage the Pi.
There is nothing you can do to make a MOSFET which needs more than 3.3V miraculously work. Although you could use a transistor to drive the gate.
There ARE MOSFETs which switch with 3.3V Vgs although most need more.
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The pigpio library supports remote GPIO: http://abyz.me.uk/rpi/pigpio/
The GPIO Zero library also supports using pigpio as the pin driver, so you can use the GPIO Zero API with pigpio features. See the sections on remote GPIO: https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/remote_gpio.html and https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/recipes_remote_gpio.html
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Plenty of ways if you share a network (wired or wireless) with the Pi.
Have a look at my pigpio especially the Python module. That will allow you to control the GPIO from another Windows, Mac, Android, Linux machine as long as it can run Python. Each Pi you wish to control must have the pigpio daemon running on it.
Also have a look at gpiozero which lets ...
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The USB port is NOT available on the 40-ping connector!
If a USB serial is enought for debugging then you could add a USB-Serial chip like CP210x, CH340/CH341 or equal to the UART RX/TX pins, then you will get a USB serial on your HAT.
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What went wrong?
The most likely reason is that the 3.3V converter you used for 12V sensing via GPIO got powered while the SoC was still down. RPi doesn't start immediately once you feed it with 5v, it takes tens of milliseconds to start which is an eternity in electronics' time.
As a result, you applied 3.3V to a pin of an unpowered SoC, which you shouldn'...
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You will need to buy an ADC (Analogue to Digital Converter) such as the popular MCP3008.
You connect the Lilypad output to the ADC and the ADC to the Pi. The MCP3008, for example, uses the Pi's SPI GPIO.
You then write a program to read the data from the ADC. Python is a popular choice and there are hundreds of examples on-line.
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Tanks for all the help
This did the trick:
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
GPIO.setup(38, GPIO.OUT)
p = GPIO.PWM(38, 50)# This helped
p.start(2.5)
try:
while True:
p.ChangeDutyCycle(12.5)
time.sleep(1)
p.ChangeDutyCycle(2.5)
time.sleep(1)
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